From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
LM Sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:25:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100331152500.4b2ef6a0@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100331125122.GA16583@srcf.ucam.org>
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:51:23 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:30:04AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
>
> > It definitely does. At least on some of the affected boards, no access
> > to the I/O area in question is done at all as long as the asus_atk0110
> > driver is not loaded.
>
> You've audited the system management code?
No, I did not. But you did not review the system management code of all
computers out there either, and you are still writing kernel code that
could be broken by it. So what's the point?
--
Jean Delvare
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-31 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20100309135636.373a40a9@hyperion.delvare>
2010-03-30 10:03 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Jean Delvare
2010-03-30 13:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 19:47 ` Jean Delvare
2010-03-30 19:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 20:32 ` Jean Delvare
2010-03-30 21:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 21:45 ` [lm-sensors] " Luca Tettamanti
2010-03-30 21:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-31 7:30 ` Jean Delvare
2010-03-31 12:51 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-31 13:25 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2010-03-31 13:27 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-31 13:37 ` Jean Delvare
2010-03-31 7:42 ` Jean Delvare
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